Sports GK MCQs

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Yuka Saso won the gold medal in golf women’s individual at the 2018 Asian Games. Golf at the 2018 Asian Games was held at Pondok Indah Golf Course, Jakarta, Indonesia, from 23 to 26 August 2018 and featured four events: the men’s individual and team events and women’s individual and team events.

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Uppercut is a vertical, rising punch thrown with the rear hand. From the guard position, the torso shifts slightly to the right, the rear hand drops below the level of the opponent’s chest and the knees are bent slightly. From this position, the rear hand is thrust upwards in a rising arc towards the opponent’s chin or torso.

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Kim Duk-koo was a South Korean boxer who died after fighting in a world championship boxing match against Ray Mancini. His death sparked reforms aimed at better protecting the health of fighters, including reducing the number of rounds in championship bouts from 15 to 12.

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Mary Kom is the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games. Mary Kom is an Indian amateur boxer. She is the only female to become World Amateur Boxing champion for a record six times, the only female boxer to have won a medal in each one of the first seven World Championships, and the only boxer (male or female) to win eight World Championship medals. Nicknamed Magnificent Mary, she is the only Indian female boxer to have qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics, competing in the flyweight (51 kg) category and winning a bronze medal. She became the first Indian female boxer to win a gold medal in the Asian Games in 2014 at Incheon, South Korea and is the first Indian female boxer to win gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She is also the only boxer to become Asian Amateur Boxing Champion for a record six times.

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Collegiate wrestling (also known as folkstyle wrestling) is the form of wrestling practised by men at the college and university level in the United States. This style, with some slight modifications, is also practised at high school and middle school levels, and also among younger participants, where it is known as scholastic wrestling. These names help distinguish collegiate wrestling from other styles of wrestling that are practised around the world such as those in the Olympic Games: freestyle wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling.

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Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was an Indian athlete. He is best known as a wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He was the first athlete from independent India to win an individual medal in the Olympics.

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Jatindra Charan Guha, popularly known by his ring name Gobar Guha, was a world-famous Indian wrestler and practitioner of Pehlwani. He was the first Asian to win the World Light Heavyweight Championship in the United States in 1921. When he disposed of the then World Light Heavyweight Champion and catch wrestler Ad Santel on 30 August 1921 at the Coliseum in San Francisco, he became the first Asian to win a World Professional Wrestling Championship in the United States.

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Jon Frederic Cole was a powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter and strongman from the United States. Having set world records in the squat, deadlift and total during his career, he was multiple times AAU US National Powerlifting Champion as well as an outstanding Olympic weightlifter, discus thrower and shot-putter. Being the “premier strongman” of the early 1970s for his overall excellence in powerlifting, Olympic lifting and strength-based track and field, Cole was at one time known as the “strongest man in the world” for holding the greatest combined powerlifting/weightlifting super total of all time.

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South Korea has won the most medals in archery at the Summer Olympics, with a total of 132 medals as of 2021. The country has dominated the sport since its reintroduction in 1972, showcasing exceptional talent and training programs. South Korean archers have consistently excelled, winning numerous gold medals and setting world records.

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Liga Asobal is the premier professional handball league in Spain. It was founded in 1958 which is played under EHF rules, currently consists of 16 teams, including famous ones like FC Barcelona, Ademar Leon, Bidasoa and Granollers.